The day in tech.

Meta unveiled its first fully Meta-branded AI smart glasses, starting at $299. Developed with EssilorLuxottica, the lineup includes 26 styles across three frame collections: Meta Adventurer, Meta Fury, and Meta Glasses by Kylie. The glasses feature hands-free voice interaction, multimodal AI, a Dynamic Photo feature, and live translation for 14 additional languages.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag, an always-on AI that lives inside Slack, follows conversations, learns context, and proactively flags updates and tasks. It is available in research preview to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers starting today. Claude Tag accumulates institutional knowledge over time rather than starting from scratch with each interaction.

Orderful raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with continued participation from NewRoad Capital. The company provides AI-native electronic data interchange solutions. Orderful will use the capital for technology development focused on data visibility and intelligence, and for expanding commercial partnerships.

SpaceX secured a computing agreement worth up to $6.3 billion with open-source AI startup Reflection AI. Reflection will pay $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data centre in Memphis. The contract runs through 2029 with a 90-day termination clause after three months.

Probook, a New York-based developer of an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised $40 million in total funding. The round includes a $34 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $6 million Seed round led by Sequoia Capital. Probook will use the capital to scale go-to-market operations and expand engineering and customer success teams.

Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128 billion. The move would allow the company to raise additional capital from international investors.

MoEngage acquired Aampe for tens of millions of dollars. Aampe's AI agents help brands personalize messaging. Aampe had raised approximately $28 million prior to the acquisition.

Nvidia's banned AI chips have doubled in price on China's black market. The price surge follows restrictions on exports of the chips to China. The black market now sells them at twice their original cost.

Bitcoin fell toward $62,000 as a second day of heavy selling in semiconductor stocks pressured risk assets. Ether dropped 3.7% to $1,661, and U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs logged a record 30-day net outflow exceeding $6 billion. Analysts see a fragile floor near $60,000 ahead of a $10.6 billion options expiry.

Oracle eliminated about 21,000 roles globally, reducing its workforce from 162,000 to 141,000 employees as of May 31, 2026. The company attributed the cuts partly to AI deployment, incurring $1.8 billion in severance and restructuring costs, up from $374 million the prior year.